Chadbourne’s Larry Savell Rocks

We thought that after depressing you with the below post, we’d try and lift your spirits. For those who don’t remember him from last holiday season, please meet Larry Savell, a Chadbourne & Parke litigator by day and rocker by night. Over the past decade, in between drafting interrogatories and taking depositions, Savell has released three “Lawyer-Created Law-Related Rock-and-Roll Holiday” records — click here for all of them.

This year, the 50-year-old Brooklyn native has a new album — “The Lawtunes Live At Blackacre.” And he’s branched out, broadening his subject matter beyond “I Got A Footnote In My Stocking,” “Santa & I Are Gonna Pull An All Nighter On Christmas” and “Merry Lexmas Baby.”

“My latest is more of a rock album from a lawyer’s perspective,” says Savell. “It’s basically because I wanted to create something that people would want to listen to all year round. And there were things I wanted to talk about that I couldn’t on my holiday album — like electronic discovery, which doesn’t quite fit on a holiday album.”

Twenty-five years ago, Savell joined Chadbourne’s New York office straight out of Michigan Law and never left. The seeds of his crooning career were sown in law school, where he performed in what he calls the school’s “annual alleged ‘talent show.’” Then, as a young lawyer at Chadbourne, he sang at a firm holiday party and was urged by colleagues to cut a record. The rest, as they say, is rock ‘n roll history.

When the Law Blog caught up with Savell, he was in the middle of rehearsals for a big performance next week at Chadbourne’s corporate department holiday lunch. He refused to give us a peak at the set list, but he promises that it will rock.

To spread the holiday cheer, between now and Christmas we’re going to pepper the blog with a few lyrics from Savell’s latest release. Stay tuned!

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